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“Where you look affects how you feel…”
Brainspotting (BSP), discovered by modifying EMDR, is considered a brain-body and relational modality that is used to process traumatic experiences and difficult or ‘stuck’ emotions, boost creativity, and more.
One of the most unique and fascinating aspects about Brainspotting is that you do not need to talk about your trauma or experiences in order to heal from them. This is based in our biology. Trauma gets stuck in the body and in deep layers of the brain, where there is no language and therefore cannot be accessed and processed by simply talking about it. Brainspotting is a technique which allows our body to “talk” through trauma in its language of sensations.
The term ‘Brainspot’ is referencing the eye position that connects with the emotional activation or sensation of a particular issue. The focused eye position stimulates activity in the limbic brain that is connected with the concern being processed. You can see this in action through this activity:
Think of the thing that made you proudest of yourself in the past year. Seriously, think about it!
What was it?
Odds are that you changed your eye position, unconsciously, when you were trying to access that memory. This is a real-time example of how ‘where we look affects how we feel’ (and what we have access to, deep in our memory).
What is Brainspotting?
What is a session like?
Vergence Technique
Self-spotting